Category: Pocket

When observing the nature around us, we see perfectly harmonising ecosystems. Living organisms of all shapes and sizes are working together to form a symbiosis, instinctively interwoven to reach a common goal: a well-functioning, self-sustaining ecosystem.
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The protocols of creating value in the post-industrial worldinformed free choice, rather than compliance, is the basis for decisionsactive participation, rather than passively accepting instructions, is the basis of growth and developmentwork activities are carried out within a framework of meaningf
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Few topics are as popular right now as the European Union’s new data protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR” or “Regulation”), perhaps with the exceptions of self-sovereign identity (“SSI”) and blockchain.
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When people talk about growth, they usually assume the discussion is about getting more people to your product. When we really dig into growth problems, we often see that enough people are actually coming to the products. The real growth problems start when people land…and leave.
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Convenience is the most underestimated and least understood force in the world today. As a driver of human decisions, it may not offer the illicit thrill of Freud’s unconscious sexual desires or the mathematical elegance of the economist’s incentives. Convenience is boring.
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Bulletproofs are short non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that require no trusted setup. A bulletproof can be used to convince a verifier that an encrypted plaintext is well formed. For example, prove that an encrypted number is in a given range, without revealing anything else about the number.
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Yesterday I gave a briefing on Technology Trends and the Future of Work to a group of Non Executive Directors of major corporations, organized by a large professional services firm for its clients.
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This is a talk I did for the first time at “Above Blockchain” this past weekend (2/24/18). It was put together in a few hours on Friday night and it puts into words some things I’ve been thinking about lately.
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“We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.” — Charlie Munger
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Digital rewrites the rules of business Discover how to reinvent your business with technology at the core. I’m excited to announce we just published our 2017 edition of Forrester’s top technology trends to watch.
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There’s a deeply-held attitude that management involves the head and not the hands — and that strategy is a rarer and more valuable commodity than execution. This is a huge cultural blocker in the way of bringing digital to the heart of any business.
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Amazon has had a lot of revenue growth since they started in ‘95. There are two options when companies experience this type of growth: Report profits to the street. See share price go up. Please shareholders. Maybe even hand out a dividend.
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If you’ve spent any amount of time in the cryptocurrency world in 2017, you’ve probably come across the term “cryptoeconomics.” If not, you can perhaps be excused for missing it among some of the more entertaining linguistic creations in the cryptocurrency space.
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Have you asked why business ecosystems are emerging as a real competitive force? We all need to recognize that the world is changing. It is a highly connected one, built on some incredible technological advances.
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